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title: Where'd they hide when the mouse was messin' about? — Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where'd they hide when the mouse was messin' about? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 7 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

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Where'd they hide when the mouse was messin' about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they, mouse · **What happens:** hide, be · **To what, where:** messin

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1286-pg3454-part11/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t7:1
# text = Where'd they hide when the mouse was messin' about?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	messin	messin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the mouse | messin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Under the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t7:o1:1
# text = Under the table
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Behind the big velvet curtains by the fire, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t7:o2:1
# text = Behind the big velvet curtains by the fire, like
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Inside a big press in the corner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t7:o3:1
# text = Inside a big press in the corner
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Behind the big chair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t7:o4:1
# text = Behind the big chair
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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